Quote by William R. Alger

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; it

Summary

This quote suggests that the true wealth of a person's soul is not determined by material possessions or external success, but by their capacity to experience and express emotions. The more deeply and intensely a soul can feel emotions such as love, compassion, joy, and even pain, the richer it is considered to be. Conversely, a soul that is emotionally closed-off and unaffected by the world is seen as poor, regardless of any outward signs of material wealth. This quote emphasizes the importance of emotional depth and richness in assessing the true value of a person's inner being.

Topics

Soul

By William R. Alger

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

William Shakespeare

Good

The same meaning changes with the words which express it. Me

The same meaning changes with the words which express it. Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

Change

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the o

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Age

In Germany I am not so famous.

In Germany I am not so famous.

Famous

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.

Dad

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several tim

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expressi

There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expression -- poetry. All the rest is a lie --except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul.

Stephane Mallarme

Poetry

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

Joseph Ratzinger

Freedom

When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew.

When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew.

Evangelism

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

Best

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

Faith

And silence sounds no worse than cheersAfter death has stopp

And silence sounds no worse than cheersAfter death has stopped the ears.

A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad,

Silence